Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of applications saturated with functions which most users will never need , Microsoft , Lotus and their rivals are starting to produce products which are easy to learn and use . |
| 2 | It was common for sittings to take place in rooms contained in buildings whose primary purpose was to house other government departments . |
| 3 | The chief reason for the perpetuation of party strife was the fact that politics continued to be dominated by issues which divided members of Parliament along Whig–Tory lines . |
| 4 | They it is brought forward on safety factors and I think that is a matter that should be considered by committee whatever political persuasion er I do use this road er regularly Mr Mayor , er I live there , I an indeed one of the people , if you like , er inconvenienced . |
| 5 | In the TEI scheme all such objects are regarded as the same kind of element , called here a ‘ division ’ ; though a distinction is made between divisions whose hierarchic position is regarded as inseparable from their semantics ( these are encoded as s ) . |
| 6 | The skills of boxing , fencing and riding made of Joyce what one observer called ‘ a thug of the first order ’ . |
| 7 | Also , organic eyes are not subject to the same design constraints as are cameras : fish eyes have lenses made of material whose refractive index varies continuously from the centre to the outside . |
| 8 | Once a document has been selected via AIDOC its full text can be obtained by contacting national AI offices . |
| 9 | And Joseph also went up from Galilee , out of the city of Nazareth , into Judea , unto the city of David , which is called Bethlehem to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife , being great with child . |
| 10 | This was done in case my main culture got fouled by overfeeding and hence I was always able to start a new culture if necessary . |
| 11 | Often the " essence " has been seen in terms which wider study of religions has shown to be too narrow or too idiosyncratic or in ways which undermine the significance of the external forms of religious traditions . |
| 12 | Until then these infections had only really been seen in people whose natural defences had been damaged by cancer or by drugs which suppress the immune system . |
| 13 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 14 | THE PLAYBOYS ‘ Well made ’ trip through the sexual mire of Fifties Ireland , written by Shane My Left Foot Connaughton , detailing a predictable love triangle — unmarried mum Robin Wright ( actually pretty good ) caught between uptight copper Albert Finney and free-wheeling actor Aidan Quinn . |
| 15 | Here are some sentences ( written by people whose first language is not English ) where we would not have used " the " : No movement in the British literary history before Aestheticism … |
| 16 | Of course , from a strictly scientific viewpoint these individual biographical studies can be criticised on the grounds that they are biased towards rather special cases ; added to which , as Becker points out , such accounts were usually written by clinicians whose professional interest in the abnormal inevitably caused them to focus on signs of pathology . |
| 17 | An ‘ inside ’ story can also be told in terms which subordinate individuals to some larger social whole . |
| 18 | At the Cotswold Farm Park , staff have been busy sprucing up their sheep ready for the show.The Cotswold breed society insists that these longwools are sheared before competing.In their natural state with a full fleece Cotswolds find the sweltering summer heat hard going.It 's the dedication of breeders like the Hensons at Guiting Power that has saved the Cotswold sheep from extinction : |
| 19 | Cowering before a stone-faced jury is Andy Spearpoint , lyricist and singer with the New Fast Automatic Daffodils , attempting to explain why his gang of rhythmic misfits really needed to foist their multi-tentacled percussion patchworks onto a world already over-run with pop music in all its myriad hybrid strains . |
| 20 | ‘ I was told to mind my own business . ’ |
| 21 | Under the Arctic night sky we are going gentle uphill without effort , hauled by dogs whose only noise is a gently effort-driven panting . |
| 22 | MUCH of the most thought provoking cricket writing over the years has been produced by authors whose major interests lie outside cricket . |
| 23 | minimum commissions offered by brokers which limited price competition . |
| 24 | The base of the glass is filled with water which just touches the bottom of the bulb . |
| 25 | … to ensure that redundancy is not used as a pretext for getting rid of employees which some manager wishes to get rid of for some quite other reasons , eg … by reason of personal dislike . |
| 26 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 27 | Although as we have seen earlier the decorative qualities of gold could be explored by direct hammering , the archaeological record shows that goldsmithing of a sophisticated kind in fact developed in communities which practised copper or bronze metallurgy . |
| 28 | For example , the voluntary agreement seems to protect young women ( aged 16–24 ) from cigarette advertising by requiring that no advertisement be placed in magazines whose primary readership is women in that age range . |
| 29 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 30 | MEL is part of the Philips group , and its contender is heavily based on a radar known as Smart which another Philips company is developing in Holland for the Dutch Navy . |